12 and 13, dubbed “Game of Cards,” offers Brahms’ Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra in A minor, written in 1887 and clocks in at about 34 minutes. Violinist Cordula Merks, concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, will perform Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto on May 20 and 21. And while the programs also boast standard-repertoire works by Brahms, Rossini, Ravel, Grieg, Mendelssohn, they also include contemporary pieces by Julia Perry, a mid-20th-century Black American composer, and Trey Makler, the symphony’s composer-in-residence. Once again symphony Music Director and Conductor Marc Taddei and board members have organized the trio of concerts around themes, specifically the featured ballet music. 12 and featuring three concerts, each with two performances, Saturday and Sunday at the Empress Theatre, offers interesting programs mixed with the old and new and three marquee ballet pieces by 20th-century composers, including Duke Ellington’s “The River Ballet Suite.” In that vein, the Vallejo Symphony’s 90th season, beginning Nov. It also isn’t necessarily a stuffy affair for a gray- and blue-haired audiences with money. Popular across the globe, it requires those who hear it to buy into it as active listeners, not passive ones. One of the reasons Western classical music has been around for so long is its continuing cultural value, which is, perhaps, an affirmation of Plato’s belief.
Music is a lot of different things to different people, true, but Plato considered music “a moral law,” giving “soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
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